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Everyone thinks their college is the best college. And while no college is outright BAD, some are certainly better than others. And from there, it reasonably follows that one college -- and the town that makes it what it is -- must be the finest of them all.

Over the course of many tireless months working much harder than actual college students, we’ll be conducting our noble Search for America’s Best College Town. Now keep in mind, we’re not really talking about academics at all, and in some ways, even sports are only a small part of the formula. It’s the everything else -- the bars, the burgers, the bars, the buildings, the lovable famous weirdos on the streets, the weather, the bars -- that build a college town’s case. Get ready to re-enroll.

Next up: Berkeley, home of the University of California, Berkeley. Here are 18 reasons why it tops every other college town in the country.

One of the bars has a red urinal with a Stanford logo on the pee zone

From Jerry Garcia to Sarah Bernhardt, Corazon Aquino to the Dalai Lama, Janet Reno to Bill Cosby, the Greek Theater is one of the most storied amphitheaters in the world

It's also where they host a bonfire every year before The Big Game (aka the Cal-Stanford rivalry game) and burn, like, infinite palettes of wood, and you get a sunburn even though it's the middle of the night.

The most powerful weapon in the history of the planet? Conceived behind the football stadium.

Do you really wanna argue whether this is the best college town in America with the dudes who invented the atom bomb???

You can see every Cal football game for free

Thanks to Tightwad Hill, a perch 100ft above the east rim of the stadium that has zero ushers checking what's in your water bottle. Repeat: ZERO ushers checking what's in your water bottle.

Our golf course has an Alcohol Bat Phone

Tilden Park in the Berkeley hills has a phone on the ninth green where you can order food and tall boys and then pick them up at a drive-through window between the front and the back nine. That's right, drive-through tallboys ON A GOLF COURSE. If that isn't a hallmark of the world's best college town, nothing is.

Green Day wrote "Longview" in a basement near campus

Underneath a Victorian house at 2243 Ashby that generations of students have played beer pong in.

Cal has one of the largest greek systems on the West Coast, which means a lot of awesome parties

The guys at Delta Upsilon throw a $10,000 party every year with a waterfall down their main staircase, a porch moat with a legit 25ft bridge built by a certified engineer (smart alums FTW!), and, if you can find it, a magical elixir called "Sling Punch" that you'll drink out of a hollowed-out coconut.